Medicine

Rules, regulations, brand consultants, and AI all play a role in how drugs are named. 

How did a racially biased medical device become the standard of care—and what’s being done to fix it?

In the communities surrounding Nyarugusu in Western Tanzania, poor access and unaffordability push many to bring their loved ones to the refugee camp—but they often don’t realize the camp’s medical facilities are dramatically under-resourced. 

A century-old “zombie law” could usher in a nationwide abortion ban.

In 2023, Johns Hopkins-Pulitzer Center Global Health Reporting Fellow Blessed Sheriff traveled to Sierra Leone to report on efforts to transform mental health care in the country, including a psychiatric hospital’s innovative treatment methods and the first class of psychiatry residents trained there.